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Madhya Pradesh, India, March 31 (CDN) — Hindutva (Hindu nationalist) extremists accompanied by police officials on March 28 disrupted Christian worship in Raksha Nagar, Ranjhi, Jabalpur. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that at 10:30 a.m. about 45 extremists from the Bajrang Dal broke into the service shouting Hindu slogans, followed by police, as Pastor Francis Zavier of the Apostolic Christian Assemblies was leading the service. Police took Vinay Ashwaley, Mangal Das Chowdhary, Panchwati Chowdhary, Shailesh Philemon, Mamta Chowdhary and Kanti Bai Chowdhary to the Ranjhi police station. A police official told Compass that the intruders were acting on a written complaint from a known Bajrang Dal activist identified only by his surname, Sonekar, that "conversion activities" were taking place at the church. Conversion and conversion activities are legal in India. After questioning the Christians for nearly three hours, police released them without charges as the allegations were baseless, an officer told Compass. The Fellowship of Pastors subsequently sent a written request for additional police security for Good Friday and Easter Sunday services.
New Delhi – Hindu extremists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) attacked Pastor Galdwin Masih and another Christian identified only as Pritam on March 25 in the Seema Puri area of New Delhi. The pastor was leading a prayer meeting where three RSS members were present. In the middle of the meeting they alerted other RSS members and, as they began to leave, threatened to beat the Christians. As Pastor Masih and Pritam were returning home, about 25 extremists stopped them on the road and beat them with cricket stumps and hockey sticks, leaving their bodies badly bruised. Pastor Gladwin called police, who rushed to the site as the extremists fled. A First Information Report was filed against the attackers, but no arrests had been made at press time.
Tamil Nadu – Local Hindu villagers in Palladam, Tiruppur, on March 23 filed a complaint against five Christians for carrying brochures depicting Hindu religion and gods as barbaric and glorifying Christianity. The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that the Christians from Nagercoil village, identified only as Kannian, Pride, Mathew, Paulraj and Vincent, visited Christians in Kullampalaya slum area to provide medical help. A local daily reported that the Christians were carrying brochures favoring Christianity over Hinduism and that their primary aim was "forcible conversion" by offering promises of free homes, money, food and jobs in foreign countries. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that Kama Nayakkampalayam police took the five Christians into custody, but after questioning them found them innocent and released them. They were released with a "soft warning to not indulge in such activities again," reported the local-vernacular daily.
Andhra Pradesh – Hindu extremists in Anakapalli Mandal attacked Pastor Nireekshana Roa and his wife on March 22. Led by village head Ram Naidu, the extremists accused the couple of forceful conversion and beat them for preaching in the area. The couple was earlier attacked for organizing a prayer meeting in the area. Police refused to file the pastor's complaint, and area Christian leaders were trying to intervene on the couple's behalf at press time.
Chhattisgarh – About 25 Hindu extremists forced their way into the Sunday worship service of Believers Church of India in Raipur on March 21, threatening and cursing the Christians and seizing Bibles and other literature. An area source reported that at about 2 p.m. the extremists entered and threatened to beat the Christians if they did not leave the area; they also threatened to get a government employee present fired from her job if she continued in her Christian faith. Police detained the Christians for about three hours, during which they also issued threats for them to leave the area. The church members were said to be living in fear.
Chhattisgarh – About 40 Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal stopped the Sunday prayer meeting of Ebenezer Church in Kasdol on March 21. A source told Compass that at 3:30 p.m. the extremists angrily barged into the prayer meeting, accused the Christians of forceful conversion, tore Bibles and Christian literature and shut the church. They threatened the Christians with violence if they continued to hold prayer meetings. The extremists alerted police, and officers took some Christian leaders of the church, including Pastor Ravi Bagha, to the police station for about seven hours. Area Christians intervened and they were released without charges. Police refused to take the complaint of the Christians, reported the source.
Chhattisgarh – About 40 Hindu extremists from the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) on March 21 attacked Christian students and teachers at Personality Development Centre for Youth, a training center managed by Care for the People of India, in Durg. The extremists verbally abused them, burned Bibles and gospel literature and got them arrested on false charges of insulting the national flag. A source told Compass that at about 2 p.m. the extremists, carrying a national flag on which they had painted a red cross, forcefully entered the center and began beating the students. Later, with the criminally defaced flag as supposed evidence, the extremists filed a complaint of insulting the Indian flag against three teachers of the center. The three Christians were booked for insulting the national flag and were later released on bail. Praful Barrik, head of Care for the People of India, received medical treatment for injuries sustained in the attack.
Chhattisgarh – Hindu extremists from the Dharma Sena (Religious Army) on March 21 accused members of The Pentecostal Church of forceful conversion and beat them in Nandini, Durg. A source told Compass that about 35 extremists forcefully entered the church at about 1:30 p.m., as the Sunday meeting was winding up. At press time area Christian leaders were taking steps to register an FIR against the attackers.
Karnataka – Police arrested a pastor on March 15 after Hindu extremists filed a complaint against him of forceful conversion in Borgunta, Sullai Taluk, Mangalore. The Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that the incident took place when a Christian identified only as Pastor Valsalan of Bethesda Assemblies of God Church, along with his family, was visiting a church member's home; about 30 Hindu extremists barged into the house and accused the pastor of forceful conversion. An area Bharatiya Janata Party member of the Legislative Assembly and other extremists pressured police authorities to arrest the pastor. Officers arrived and arrested him, and he was sent to central jail in Mangalore.
Madhya Pradesh – Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal in Badwani on March 13 stopped a meeting at a Christian convention and accused those in attendance of forceful conversion. Satsang (Fellowship) Ministry organized the three-day spiritual convention after obtaining permission from local police on March 12. The Christians went to police to say they had obtained permission for the convention, but officers sided with the extremists, telling the Christians to cease attending.
Karnataka – Based on a complaint by an area leader of the Hindu extremist Vishwa Hindu Parishad of forcible conversion, police on March 10 arrested Pastor Hanume Nayak of Good Shepherd Community Church and his wife. Officers questioned the couple in Chellur, and they were held in custody the entire night. With the intervention of area Christian leaders and that of a member of the Legislative Assembly, the Christians were released on bail the next day.
Chhattisgarh – Hindu extremists from the Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena on March 9 attacked a pastor and warned him to leave the Kawardha area. Massing near the Christian's house, about 20 Hindu extremists called for Pastor Sanatan Masih of The Christian Church to come out of his home, and then they began beating him, reported the Evangelical Fellowship of India. In an earlier incident on Feb. 15, the extremists had threatened to harm the pastor if he conducted any Christian activity. On March 3 they broke into The Christian Church and vandalized it, and police refused to register the complaint of Christians. In the March 9 attack, Pastor Masih sustained injuries to his mouth, back and stomach. At press time, he had relocated as a safety measure.
Karnataka – Hindu radicals in Periyapattinam, Mysore brutally beat Pastor Ravi Chandran, 30, on March 8. The pastor was leading a prayer service at a house in Banavara village, Periyapattinam at 11:30 a.m. when 10 to 15 Hindu extremists forced their way into the house. They hit the pastor with soda bottles and kicked and punched him repeatedly before leaving. Pastor Chandran received hospital treatment for a leg injury and for swelling on his head. A native of Chankeshwara Puram, Periyapattinam, Pastor Chandran has been in church leadership for the seven years and ministers at Gospel in Action Fellowship, with about 35 believers. The attack was reported to Somvarpet police station.
Andhra Pradesh – Hindu extremists beat a Christian identified only as Pastor Devaraju of Good Shepherd Community Church on March 7, locked his church building and confined him to his house for several hours in Timmajipet, Mahabubnagar. The All Indian Christian Council reported that the pastor and church members had opposed Hindu extremists trying to bury a body in a Christian cemetery with Hindu rituals on March 5. In response the Hindus retaliated with the March 7 attack. They confined the pastor to his room for nearly a day, threatening to take possession of the church building and turn it into a local community hall. At press time local Christian leaders were trying to help resolve the matter.
Karnataka – Hindu extremists allegedly led by a municipal councilor on Feb. 28 accused Christians in Karwar of forceful conversion and beat them till they fell unconscious on a roadside. Led by Raja Gowda, the extremists at about 6:30 p.m. charged onto the premises of New Life Fellowship Church, where Christians David Lambani and Satish Ambedkar were staying. The extremists verbally insulted them and dragged them out to the street before beating them unconscious. The Christians were rushed to the hospital. Lambani's left ear drum was damaged, while Satish sustained head injuries and broken bones. Police registered a First Information Report against the attackers, but no arrests had been made at press time. Legal documents for the church site had been obtained, but area village leaders had stopped construction on November 2009 and in February.
Chhattisgarh – State police on Feb. 28 arrested six Christians after extremists filed a false complaint of forcible conversion. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that Pastor Jose Thomas of the Indian Missionary Movement organized a meeting for around 40 Christians at Holy Kingdom English High School in Kawardha district. At around 2:30 p.m., a mob of nearly 50 Hindu nationalist extremists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh stormed into the school, verbally abused the Christians and made false allegations of forcible conversion. Kawardha police officials came to the school and arrested Pastor Thomas and five Christians, who were also charged with injuring or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class. Police Inspector Surinder Singh told Compass that local resident Chandra Prakash had filed the complaint against the Christians, and that they were released on bail on March 9. Singh denied GCIC allegations that the Christians were beaten inside the police station.
Madhya Pradesh – Police arrested a Christian who goes by this a single name, Adhwan, on Feb. 20 on charges of forceful conversion. A source reported that officers accused the preacher of forceful conversion and had previously arrested him on Jan. 23 for alleged forceful conversion, when he was sent to Champa district jail. Authorities also confiscated his passport. He had been released on bail on Jan. 27. On Feb. 20 police arrested him again on the same charges and released him the next day. Attorney Anurag Nath told Compass that police had no grounds for the arrests.
Andhra Pradesh – Hindu extremists on Feb. 15 ostracized an elderly couple for following Jesus in Timmaipet, Mahabubnagar, Hyderabad. The All Indian Christian Council reported that Mullugula Buddaiah, 70, and his 60-year-old wife Pullamma were cast out of the community for their faith in Christ as the extremists ordered the couple to vacate their house and leave the village. An area pastor identified only as Devaraju filed a police complaint, which officers refused to register. Local Christian leaders were taking steps to resolve the matter at press time.
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The sort of things that belong on this thread include general enquiries, soapbox philosophy, meandering trains of argument that move dynamically from one point of contention to another, and so on — as long as the comments adhere to the broad BNC themes of sustainable energy, climate change mitigation and policy, energy security, climate impacts, etc.
You can also find this thread by clicking on the Open Thread category on the cascading menu under the "Home" tab.
Note 1: For reference, the last general open thread (from 16 April 2011) was here.
Note 2: I'm currently inordinately busy (but also having a lot of fun!) at the Equinox Summit: Energy 2030 in Waterloo, Canada. Once I get a chance to draw breath, I'll post more about the summit on BNC. But we're currently working intense 14 hour days (I'm not kidding), so I've not got much physical or mental energy left in me by the time I get back to my hotel room at night!
However, if you want to follow some of the events, the Canadian television station TVO is covering the whole summit. I was on a panel session yesterday (Benchmarking our Energy Future: see the video here), which also featured four really interesting short animated videos on energy; I will also be part of a 1-hour episode of Steve Paikin's The Agenda on Friday night (Canadian time — but also available on the TVO website — more details to follow).
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On the opening day of the Masters golf tournament, George Washington and the Nationals' racing presidents decided to pay tribute with a little 4-man golf scramble during the 4th-inning presidents race this afternoon at Nationals Park.
Emerging from the centerfield starting gate with golf ball and club in hand, George went first, hitting the ball down the outfield warning track, then handing the club to Teddy for the second shot.
With the other presidents concentrating on golf, George seized the opportunity to bolt for the finish line, and won the race uncontested.
The Nationals' victory today over the Phillies was not quite as easy but even more sweet. Ryan Zimmerman's late-inning RBI double enabled the team to head to New York with a first victory under the belt.
After disastrous starts the previous two Aprils, the embarrassing outpouring of Phillies fans for Monday's opener, and poor pitching performances in the first two games, the Nats had a major PR problem brewing; but victory cures all ills. As they hit the road, the Nats are just a game under .500, and Teddy is just one win behind the presidents race lead.
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Grant money is the lifeblood of academia. Without it, graduate students and postdocs can't get paid, professors won't have any summer salary, and experiments would never get done. In addition, universities take some percentage off the top to support facilities and infrastructure. Obtaining grants is a major part of an academic researcher's job—perhaps second only to publishing papers as a measure of his or her success.
That pressure to obtain grant funding, combined with an ever-decreasing success rate, drives many scientists to submit more and more applications. It's fairly common practice to submit the same or similar applications to different funding agencies, in the hope that one will be funded. Usually, the applicant has to disclose if they've obtained other funding for a specific project, but it's clear that there is potential for duplication of funding.
To get a sense of how much funding duplication may have occurred in recent years, a group of three researchers led by Harold Garner of the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute analyzed over half a million grant applications summaries using the automated text similarity engine eTBLAST. Most of the applications came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF), with a smaller number from the Departments of Energy (DOE) and Defense (DOD) and the Susan J. Komen for the Cure foundation. In a recent Nature article, they estimate that nearly $70 million in grant money overlapped with previously funded efforts.
The text similarity tool has been used previously to look for plagiarism in biomedical research papers. It calculates similarity scores between two grant summaries by looking at shared words being used in the same location in sentences. Out of over half a million grant summaries, the tool assigned 1,300 high similarity scores, which the authors then analyzed manually.
Note that they could only use the summary of the grants published openly—a more comprehensive look would require the full applications and award contracts, which would likely be only available through a Freedom of Information Act request. In fact, the DOE stopped publishing these summaries in 2009, so recent grants weren't available for analysis.
Through this manual analysis, they found 167 pairs of grant summaries—a little over three hundred total grants—with "suspicious" overlaps in research aims, hypotheses, or goals. These grants correspond to around $200 million in total funding, with an estimated $69 million in overlapping funds (the initial grants being, on average, 1.9 times larger than the potential duplicate).
Now, there are a number of caveats to these figures. First of all, their analysis doesn't actually determine whether the potential duplication is inappropriate—or even whether there is true duplication occurring. Grant summaries are typically written in broad strokes, meant for the non-technical public. It's easily possible for multiple grants, even to the same investigator, to fund research with similar overall goals, but different details, in terms of the specific experiments being done.
Furthermore, while two grant applications may be similar, the actual money handed out could have been reduced in consideration of the fact that two grants were awarded. Larger grants may fund most of the work, while a second, smaller grant could provide for some supplemental research. Determining true funding duplication would require comparisons of the full grant proposals and funding contracts.
Out of the grants with suspicious overlap, only a third ran concurrently. The remaining two-thirds could have been "recycled", where a successful grant was resubmitted either to the same funding program or elsewhere. Again, many research programs in this category may be legitimate: once a three-year grant concludes, a longer-term research program—say, curing pancreatic cancer, which isn't likely to be done in three years—could be funded again through a similar proposal.
However, in the manual study of duplicates, the group did find a number of worrying situations, such as followup applications that proposed studies that would produce data that was already available—in fact, they were cited in the initial applications (perhaps it was research on time travel). In other cases, similar grants from different agencies funded collaborators at different institutions to do similar sounding work.
The authors believe that their estimation of duplicate grants is conservative for a couple of reasons. For one thing, their text analysis tool was unable to consider summaries with less than 200 words—accounting for nearly 200 thousand grants that weren't included in this analysis. They also believe the tool missed some duplication in the summaries based on Garner's previous look at plagiarism in biomedical research papers. There, the eTBLAST tool found duplication in 0.04 percent of papers, even though 1.4 percent of scientists admitted to plagiarism in a survey.
If a similar amount of duplication was missed here, then over $5 billion in grant funds awarded since 1985 could involve duplicate efforts. That's probably an overestimate, but even the $70 million found here is concerning. Any illegitimate duplication in research funding cuts down on the money available for efforts elsewhere.
Garner and his coauthors argue that government agencies need to make more of an effort to avoid funding duplicate proposals. According to them, a good start would be a centralized database of proposals for all government agencies, which would enable a direct comparison of applications for any duplication. Considering the ever-tightening budgets of funding agencies and the growing numbers of scientists looking for grants, it's imperative that we make smart decisions on where to spend our money.
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Last week we presented Jay Buchsbaum the Executive VP of the Royal Wine Co., as our interviewee. You can hear Jay and his encyclopedic knowledge of all things wine, here
This coming Wednesday, at 8:00pm, our guest will be Chef Lévana Kirschenbaum, the regulars of this blog know how much we enjoy her cooking demos, how much we enjoy her recipes. Mrs. Kirschenbaum has written three cookbooks Lévana's Table, In Short Order and Lévana Cooks Dairy-Free!. She's now hard at work on her fourth cookbook on Superfoods, due out this coming summer.
Who is Lévana? What are her credentials? Most of you may remember her ground breaking restaurant Lévana's, but there is far more as we are told on her website:
For nearly thirty years Lévana Kirschenbaum has owned and operated a catering business, a bakery and a successful Manhattan restaurant all while raising a family. She understands that even gourmet chefs don't want to spend all day in the kitchen. With this in mind, she keeps the recipes simple, insisting that using fresh, natural ingredients will yield fantastic results without a lot of fuss.
When Lévana opened her eponymous restaurant with her two brothers-in-law twenty five years ago, all Kirschenbaums were perfectly aware they were facing a hard sell: introduce fine kosher dining to the Kosher public, who until then was content either eating at home or grabbing a bite in the rare joints that served institutional old world treats. The general prediction was that the presumptuous idea would fall flat on its face.
Undaunted by being the trailblazers of the trend, they surrounded themselves with the best chefs, developed the most delicious dishes and waited patiently until the idea of gourmet kosher caught on. The rest, as we all know, is history: kosher food and wine has experienced a veritable explosion and has its place among the most prestigious competitions. Many luxury kosher restaurants have opened and thrived since Lévana's pioneering days, bearing out the dictum that imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
With over 25 years of experience in professional cooking, recipe development, catering and teaching, celebrity chef Lévana makes the preparation of nutritious and exotic gourmet cuisine easy. She gets countless devoted fans for her fearless, practical and nutritious approach to cooking and spreads the good word on simple, streamlined, elegant and wholesome dining in her classroom on the Upper West Side – where she gives weekly demos – and around the country.
What is her goal?
Fine dining that is also contemporary, nutritious and easy to prepare is a way of life that Lévana instills in her classes. Lévana's unfussy, straightforward approach utilizes fresh, all natural ingredients to create international flavors from her native Morocco and other wide-ranging culinary influences.
I've known Lévana for a while now and I can assure you that the show will be truly informative and entertaining. Just listen in, gentle reader, at 8:00pm on Wednesday, February 2nd, on Jewish Radio Network. Enter the site and click on the red "here" under the white "Radio," then wait about 30 to 90 seconds for the application to start streaming.


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I have seen so many delicious recipes with spinach around lately that I felt like cooking with it, too.
This time, I got the recipe from Donna Hay Magazine #33 but I changed it quite a bit. It was my second baked risotto and what an easy dish to put together! Not to mention that while it's in the oven you can sit on the couch and watch TV – like I did, watching my newest addiction.
This is my entry for this Weekend Herb Blogging, this time hosted by Vanessa, from What Geeks Eat.
Spinach, cheese and walnut baked risotto
adapted from Donna Hay magazine
1 ½ cups Arborio (or risotto) rice
4 ½ cups (36fl oz) vegetable stock
1 cup finely grated parmesan cheese
40g (1 ½ oz) unsalted butter
freshly ground black pepper
50g (1 ¾ oz) spinach leaves – remove the stems before measuring or use baby spinach leaves
100g (3 ½ oz) yellow mozzarella*, roughly grated
1/3 cup chopped walnuts, slightly toasted
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/355ºF. Place the rice and stock in a 22x30cm (8 ½x12in) 10-cup (80fl oz)** capacity baking dish and stir to combine. Cover tightly with foil and cook for 40 minutes or until most of the stock is absorbed and the rice is al dente.
Add the parmesan, butter, salt, pepper, spinach, mozzarella and walnuts and stir until the butter is melted. Serve immediately.
* a type of salty mozzarella we have here in Brazil, made with cow's milk - very much used as pizza topping. You can replace with regular mozzarella or use fetta (as in the original recipe)
** I used a deep bowl – I thought it would be easier to mix the ingredients in it than in a rectangular baking dish
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In recent years, when applied to the United States, the term "exceptionalism" has escalated from its usual first meaning — uncommon — to its second — extraordinary. Meanwhile, when it comes to the planet on which we live, Americans and the rest of its inhabitants may not exactly be earth exceptionalists, but we are earth-centric. Since the earth is our only frame of reference, we're alternately resigned to how its history repeats itself or we're wracking our brains, trying to figure out how to navigate the next millennium as if nothing like it had ever been done before — by anyone, anywhere in the universe.
As one disposed, by nature, to believe in alien life forms, I often ask myself about the various obstacles with which we're confronted or those of our own making: How do they do they surmount them on other planets? For example, does anyone really believe that a civilization elsewhere that may be a millennium — or a million of them — older than ours bases its economy on capitalism and free markets? It doesn't take much imagination to see that dwindling resources require a managed economy, at the least, to parcel out what's left.
Recently, however, the pendulum of my perspective has begun to swing back to earth-centric. Recent thinking places planets that just might host human life forms at the far reaches of the universe. In other words, prospects for a community of planets inhabited with humanoids, in our corner of the universe anyway, may be slim and none. In fact, it may be a millennium before such planets are even visible via telescopes. Last spring, at Astrobiology Magazine, Dan Choi wrote:
Although our telescopes will likely become good enough to detect signs of life on exoplanets [planets revolving around another sun besides ours. — RW] within the next 100 years, it would probably take many centuries before we could ever get a good look at the aliens.
Signs of life may be all we see because what's required is not the most powerful telescope of all time, but a series of telescopes.
To begin imaging even giant organisms 30 feet long and wide on the closest putative exoplanet [which is] 4.37 light years away, the elements making up a telescope array would have to cover a distance roughly 400,000 miles wide. . . . The area required to collect even one photon [the basic unit of light — RW] a year in light reflected off such a planet is some 60 miles wide.
In other words, it's likely that we're more alone than I had thought. The logical response then is to value the planet for its uniqueness as if it were a priceless museum piece which we pledge to keep out of harm's way.
It's difficult to believe that many still view the earth as a raw resource to be developed, when, in fact, such a pursuit comes perilously close to rifling the pockets of a corpse. Unless, that is, they're convinced that once the earth is used up, they can colonize another planets. (Mining aside, some scientists maintain that Mars and other planets may be arable.)
More likely, environmental concerns are tuned out because of an inability to stomach the messengers — whether progressives in general or scientists who hold no truck with creationism. But it's folly to believe that when the earth finally keels over and expires, colonization and migration can be ramped up on demand.
In the end, when it comes to planets conducive to the care and feeding of advanced life forms, earth is likely a space oasis. Which should serve to firm up one's commitment to nuclear disarmament. For when it comes to ravaging the earth, a nuclear attack accelerates the entropy of global warming many times over. The number of dead may result in a suddenly sustainable population, but that's a poor consolation prize for the physical and psychic trauma inflicted on the survivors. Complete with a radioactive landscape and nuclear winter as well, nuclear war can send the planet on a fast track to hell.


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Thanks for checking out my latest Moda Bake Shop recipe! I'm Sarah, from Sweet Dreams by Sarah, and you can visit my blog to read a little more about my inspiration for this quilt, and to get a sneak peek of other projects that I'm working on. I mostly make baby quilts, because frankly, I like immediate gratification. Even though this is a lap-sized quilt, it comes together so quickly, it will be done before you know it!
I love the modern feel of a traditional block that's blown up, so today we're making a giant vintage star, using patchwork to give it a fun, scrappy feel. Let's get started!
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3 Yards Bella Porcelain
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Cotton batting, measuring at least 70″ by 70″
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Four colorway-sorted piles, with at least 4 different prints in each:
A lower contrast or multicolored pile, with at least 8 different prints:
Set aside the rest of the layer cake, as we'll be using that for the borders!
Keeping each pile together, cut the squares in quarters, giving you little stacks of 5″ squares.
Remaining cutting:
From the Porcelain background yardage:
- 6 squares that measure 14″, and 4 squares that measure 13 1/2″
- 8 strips 3 3/4″ by width of fabric (WOF)
From binding fabric:
- 7 strips 2 1/2″ by WOF
Now that we have all the pieces, let's get sewing! We'll be using a 1/4″ seam for all seams.
Using the squares we cut in the first step, and working with one color pile at a time, sew the squares into nine-patches. Pick out 9 5″ squares from one of the colorways, and lay them out, trying to make it as scrappy looking as possible:
Sew the squares together into rows:
And press out the rows with the seams going in opposite directions so that you can nest the seams:
Sew the rows together and press for your nine-patch:
You'll need 1 nine-patch in each colorway, and 2 in the low contrast fabrics.
Next, we need to mark those 14″ squares we cut from the background fabric. Mark the diagonal across the square, with your preferred marking tool. We're going to be sewing on either side of that line, so make sure you can see it. Lay one of your nine-patches down, right side up, and then lay the background square on top, with your marking facing up.
Pin this together, and then sew on either side of the line, 1/4″ away from the line:
Do this with all 6 of the 9 patches that you've made up, and then go ahead and cut on those lines that you drew, going right between the lines that you sewed.
Press these open, and you'll see that you now have patchwork half square triangles!
You should now have 16 blocks to work with – the 12 half square triangles, plus the 4 13 1/2″ background squares. Using your design wall or your floor, arrange them for your quilt center. Be sure to pair up the two half square triangles for the main colorways together, as you can see below:
Sew these squares together to create the center of the quilt. To help the seams to line up, I usually handle this piecing in quadrants. I sew together the 4 blocks in the upper left hand corner, then upper right, etc., to create bigger "chunks" that are much easier to manage when matching up corners.
Next, we'll add the inner border. Grab the 3 3/4″ strips that you cut from the background. Take 2 of them, and sew together end to end, to make a double-long strip.
Do this with all 8 strips, so that you have 4 double-long strips – one for each side of the quilt. Press the seam to one side, and pin to the edges of your quilt center, matching up the seam between the two strips to the seam in the middle of the side of the quilt:
Sew the strips onto the quilt center, using a quarter inch seam:
Sew these strips on the right and left side first, pressing and squaring up these sides before sewing the strips on the other two sides:
Next, we'll work on the outer border. Grab the extra 5″ charms that were left over from your 9-patches. We need a total of 58, so pull about 5 more pieces from the layer cake – just choose your favorite prints here, as we're still going for a scrappy look – and cut them into 5″ squares.
Choose 13 of the squares, and sew them end to end in a long strip. Be sure to use a 1/4″ seam! I loosely arranged my squares by color so that I could control the color distribution a big as I sew them together.
Choose another 13, and sew them end to end as well. Be sure to press these long strips well, and pin them onto opposite sides of the quilt. Sew each strip onto opposite sides of the the quilt center.
Next, choose 15 squares, and sew them end to end in a long strip. Do this twice also, which will give you the final borders to attach to the quilt.
Press it all well, and your quilt top is done! The leftover layer cake pieces can be used in putting together your backing, or you can simply use yardage. In this case, I used a few layer cake pieces to connect two pieces of yardage, for a scrappy looking back.
Quilt as desired, and use the 2 1/2″ strips that we cut from the binding fabric to construct your binding strips. I bound this quilt using my preferred method of initially sewing the binding onto the back of the quilt, and then sewing on the front – both by machine.
One 67×67″ lap quilt!
This quilt pattern can also be simplified and made a bit smaller by stopping after you finish the quilt center! I made this version, using a Twirl (by My Sister and Me) layer cake, and it measures approx. 52″ by 52″.
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Benjamin Levin just posted his excellent article "Made in the USA: Corporate Responsibility and Collective Identity in the American Automotive Industry" (forthcoming Boston College Law Review, Vol. 53, No. 3, p. 821, 2012) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:
This Article seeks to challenge the corporate-constructed image of American business and American industry. By focusing on the automotive industry and particularly on the tenuous relationship between the rhetoric of automotive industry advertising and the realities of doctrinal corporate law, I hope to examine the ways that we as social actors, legal actors, and (perhaps above all) consumers understand what it means for a corporation or a corporation's product to be American. In a global economy where labor, profits, and environmental effects are spread across national borders, what does it mean for a corporation to present the impression of national citizenship? Considering the recent bail-out of the major American automotive corporations, the automotive industry today becomes a powerful vehicle for problematizing the conflicted private/public nature of the corporate form and for examining what it means for a corporation to be American and what duties and benefits such an identity confers.
By examining the ways in which consumable myths of the American corporation interact with the institutions and legal regimes that govern American corporations, I argue that the advertised image of the national in the global economy serves as a broad corporate veil, a way of obscuring the consumer's understanding of corporate identity and corporate accountability. With these overarching issues and questions as a guide, this Article will historically situate the identification of corporate nationality within a broader framework of debates on corporate social responsibility and interrogate the way that we conceive of the American corporation and corporate decision making.
Download the article for free here.
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